{"id":7579,"date":"2013-09-16T12:21:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T16:37:45","slug":"rifflandia-victoria-music-festival-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/09\/16\/rifflandia-victoria-music-festival-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Rifflandia: Victoria music festival in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sixth annual Rifflandia Music Festival recently took place in Victoria’s Royal Athletic Park, as well as a host of local clubs. Nexus<\/em>‘ managing editor and grizzled music festival veteran Jason Schreurs was there to capture some of the action in pictures and words.<\/p>\n

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Mounties, a supergroup featuring Hawksley Workman on drums and members of Hot Hot Heat and Limblifter, played a solid set of ’80s-laced pop songs. Workman, known more for his solo work, was a animal on the drums, singing and banging like a modern-day Phil Collins. (Photo by Jason Schreurs\/Nexus<\/em>.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Vancouver pop-punks Needles\/\/Pins were one of the only actual “riff”-based bands at Rifflandia this year, playing to a sweaty, beer-soaked Victoria Event Centre crowd. (Photo by Jason Schreurs\/Nexus<\/em>.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The most bizarre moment of the festival came when Bosnian Rainbows singer Teri Gender Bender leaped off the stage, ran into the audience and freak-danced with a happy crowd member. Her group’s performance was one of the festival’s most memorable. (Photo by Jason Schreurs\/Nexus<\/em>.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Courtney Love showed her soft side as well as her demonic side at her headlining slot on Friday night at Rifflandia. While her guttural howl was intact, Love also showed a softer, friendly side, smiling and thanking the audience during her set. (Photo by Jason Schreurs\/Nexus<\/em>.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hot Hot Heat themselves also played Rifflandia, their first show in several years. Guitarist Luke Paquin took on the persona of a care-free hippie as the band played classics like “Bandages” and “Goodnight Goodnight” to a live crowd again. (Photo by Jason Schreurs\/Nexus<\/em>.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Country rocker Corb Lund and his Hurtin’ Albertans gave the Rifflandia crowd a much-needed break from indie rock, playing country twangers about hockey, beer, whiskey, and more hockey and beer and whiskey. (Photo by Jason Schreurs\/Nexus<\/em>.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The sixth annual Rifflandia Music Festival recently took place in Victoria’s Royal Athletic Park, as well as a host of local clubs. Nexus‘ managing editor and grizzled music festival veteran Jason Schreurs was there to capture some of the action in pictures and words.                       […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7681,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions\/7681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}